You can't turn a hoe into a housewife.

That said, I think with dance music, raw musical skill might be a detriment to making great dance music. When you start following fundamental rules of music based on teachings you might be limiting yourself. Those teachings are good for playing back already created music, instead of giving you raw ability to create new music. There are too many rules that come along with a strong music background. With Dance music there should be less rules or no rules, and more experimentation and abstract throwing things at the wall and seeing how things react. Let your senses do all the work.

Dance music requires a different type of skill. I think life experiences, taste, influences are more important when making dance music. For example, for my own music different nights out are influential, different club environments, the way people have reacted to a tune they were dancing to and what different parts of the tune did to the dancefloor has pushed the direction of where I take my own music. Or why I put certain elements in and avoid other elements. I always think about the dancefloor and the headphone listener when trying to get my vision across.

If you are able to learn the techniques of creating different sounds and more importantly different emotions and moods then you have a leg up on people who spent their whole life learning classical violin or piano. A good ear goes a long way. So if you have these moods and emotions in you, then it becomes a process of learning how to portray those moods, emotions, feelings onto a canvas, in hope to have people feel what you want them to. A good ear allows you to take what you hear and decide whether what you are working on is beneficial towards the vision. So, your born with those things, but the ability to implement what you are born with comes down to technique, practice, skill level. Things you have to learn and work on. Ultimately great music is created by a mix of being "born with it," and then making use of what you are born with through technique. I think the best producers have that natural raw talent and over time have been able to make use of that natural resource through proper technology, and the techniques needed to extract those natural resources.

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commercial and underground electronic music (house/techno/trance/other) will surpass today's hip hop/pop/rock/country in worldwide interest...if it has'nt already.

Last edited by Kismet7 on Feb-05-2009 at 10:26